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Massimo D'Alema

His classical lyceum studies led to the study of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.

A registered professional journalist, he has been a contributor to "Città futura", "Rinascita" and "l'Unità", this latter a national daily newspaper for which he was Editor in Chief from 1988 to 1990.

His political life began in 1963, when he enrolled in the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI), for which he was national Secretary from 1975 to 1980.

Received his first Italian Communist Party (PCI) membership card in 1968.

He became a member of the party's central committee at the 15th party congress in 1979, of its administration at the subsequent one in 1983 and of its secretariat in 1986.

He was among the young leaders, along with Achille Occhetto, of the changeover when the PCI was transformed into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) in 1989.

When the new party was born in 1990, he became its political coordinator.

He was elected PDS National Secretary on July 1st 1994.

He was elected to the Lower House for the first time in 1987, in the jurisdiction of Lecce.

Once re-elected, he assumed leadership of the PDS parliamentary group.

A candidate in 1994, through the new uninominal electoral system, in constituency no. 11 in the region of Appuglia, in which he was re-elected on 21 April 1996.

On 5 February 1997 he was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Institutional Reforms, which, on 4 November of the same year, submitted a bill for revision of the second part of the Constitution to the Presidents of both Houses of Parliament.

He was Prime Minister from 21 October 1998 to April 2000.

President of the Fondazione di cultura politica Italianieuropei

In December 2000 he was elected President of the Democrats of the Left (DS).

He was elected Vice-President of the Socialist International at its XXII Congress held in Sao Paolo Brazil in October 2003.

He was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004 and became President of the Permanent Delegation for relations between the EU and Mercosur.

On 9 April 2006 he was elected to the Lower House on the Olive Branch Party (Ulivo) ticket in the jurisdiction of the region of Puglia.

He was appointed Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the second Prodi government on 17 May 2006.